"That's because you were weak before." Zhao Ye patted her vest: "Didn't I tell you last time that when you get your haircut, most things will be up to you?"
Hearing this, Li Can raised his head from his arms and looked directly at him with wet eyes, full of disbelief, and asked carefully: "Then I can eat snacks with sugar in the future?"
"Yeah." Zhao Zong nodded.
"I can eat as many pieces as I want?" Li Can asked, she wanted to make sure it was true.
"Yes." Zhao Ye straightened the messy hair on her little face and wiped her face clean.
Li Can pursed his lips and smiled. It's great. He won't have to eat tasteless snacks and milk anymore.
Zhao Zong warned her again: "But you must also be measured. No matter when your body is in danger, remember?"
"Yes, I remember." Li Can nodded obediently, staring at him with clear eyes: "Then you really don't know how to get engaged?"
"What are you thinking about all day long?" Zhao Zong glanced at her and spoke lightly.
He raised his hand to take off her flower crown, spread out her bun, gently tied it into a double-snail bun, and then tied the two flower crowns upright.
Li Can sat in his arms, eating yellow jade cotton cake and letting his slender fingers run through her crow-green hair.
"Get up." Zhao Zhen stood up and held her hand: "It's getting late, it's time to go back."
Li Can got up, stood aside obediently, nibbling on the yellow jade cotton cake, and watched Zhao Hao put away everything on the ground.
"Brother Zeyu, although this is fun, it's too hard for you." She finished eating a piece of yellow jade cotton cake and licked her fingertips: "Next time, let's bring Wu Zai to pack things?"
At worst, they should ask Wu Zai to stand farther away when they are playing.
"Did you see everything clearly just now?" Zhao Zhen stepped forward and raised his hand to wipe away the cake crumbs from her lips.
"What?" Li Can suddenly became alert when he heard this, and looked at him with widened eyes. Zhao Zhi asked what he meant by this.
"You can take care of it next time." Zhao Zhi took her and got on the horse.
"Is packing things a lesson?" Li Can raised her face and looked at him.
"Yes." Zhao Ye shook off his thin cloak and wrapped it around her.
"Okay." Li Can leaned into his arms and responded.
When the two rode their horses to the gate of the East Palace, a carriage stopped.
The curtain of the carriage was opened, and Princess Changle poked her head out of the carriage and called: "Ze Yu!"
Zhao Zhen reined in his horse and looked over: "Seventh Emperor Aunt."
"Where did you come back from?" Princess Changle got off the carriage: "I got some border news and came to tell you."
She was wearing the attire of a eldest princess, looking solemn and imposing.
Xia Jieyao also followed, with a soft smile on her face, and saluted Zhao Hao: "I have met His Highness the Crown Prince."
Zhao Ye nodded slightly, jumped off the horse, and hugged Li Can down together with the thin cloak wrapped around her body.
Li Can pushed away his thin cloak and looked around. Tanggao and the others were not waiting at the door.
It's getting dark now, and the maids should be waiting in the dormitory.
If he hadn't happened to meet the seventh princess at the door, Zhao Zong would have taken her to the dormitory by now.
Zhao Ye took the thin cloak that had nowhere to put in her hand.
"I've met the eldest princess." Li Can then freed up his hands to salute.
Princess Changle glanced at her up and down without saying a word.
Li Can didn't wait for her to speak. He stood up straight and greeted Xia Jie Yao with a smile: "Sister Ah Yao."
Princess Changle frowned, this rule was far worse than her Ah Yao.
"Sister Can." Xia Jieyao smiled and greeted her.
"Seventh Emperor Aunt, follow me in and talk." Zhao Zong took Li Can and went ahead.
Xia Jieyao looked at the two people's natural intimacy, her eyes darkened slightly, and she clenched her missing right hand tightly, feeling vague pain.
"Ze Yu, I have something to say. Don't be unhappy after what my aunt has said." Princess Changle followed, quickened her pace and walked to Zhao Zong's side.
"The Seventh Emperor has something to say, but it doesn't hurt to say it." Zhao Zhi said in a calm tone.
"Li Can is fifteen this year, right?" Princess Changle glanced at Li Can who was holding his hand.
Li Can's crow-green long eyelashes fluttered twice, and she pursed her small mouth without saying a word.
Thanks to Zhao Xie's many years of teaching, she is very good at observing words and emotions.
She had already seen before that Zhao Luan didn't like her, so she would not appear in front of the eldest princess of Changle.
When she meets Xia Jieyao, it is usually Xia Jieyao who comes to look for her. She uses fear of Zhao Luan as an excuse to try not to visit the Princess Changle's mansion.
In this way, she and Zhao Luan had no intersection, so naturally there would be no conflicts.
But when Zhao Luan came to her door like this, she had no way to hide.
When Zhao Luan looked at her at the door just now, there was dissatisfaction in his eyes, and now he looked even more dissatisfied with her.
What's wrong with her?
She admitted that she was not as good at following rules as Xia Jieyao, but she was not so bad that she would be picked on like this, right?
She squeezed Zhao Zong's big hand and pressed it in front of him. People from the Zhao Luan royal family could not be easily offended, so they could just hide behind Zhao Zong.
"Yes." Zhao Ye looked forward with an expressionless face: "We will hold a hairpin ceremony at the end of the year."
"Although I haven't had the gift of haircut yet, I am still fifteen after all." Princess Changle glanced at Li Can again: "As the prince, you must pay attention to all aspects.
Things like riding together and holding hands while walking just now are unnecessary. After all, she is not a child anymore. If gossip spreads, it will damage your majesty."
As she spoke, her eyes fell on the hands they were holding together.
Xia Jieyao also looked over, her face was still dignified and polite, and there was no change. Her hands were hidden in her sleeves but they were clenched painfully.
When Li Can heard this, not only did he have no intention of stopping, but he tightened his grip on Zhao Ge's hand.
She has always been a person who accepts soft things but not hard ones. Except for Zhao Zhen, she is not afraid of anyone who wants to be tough with her.
Zhao Luan wouldn't let Zhao Ji hold her, but she insisted.
But she was also a little uneasy in her heart, fearing that Zhao Zong would let go of her hand after listening to Zhao Luan's words.
Fortunately, Zhao Zhi did not.
Zhao Ye glanced sideways at Zhao Luan: "Don't worry, Qihuang Aunt, I treat her like this."
"It's no better now than when I was a child. If outsiders see it, and if it reaches the ears of your father, the consequences will be disastrous..." Princess Changle couldn't help but persuade her again.
"Seventh Emperor's Aunt." Zhao Zhen interrupted her: "She followed me into the palace last month, and she did the same in front of my father."
The eldest princess of Changle was stunned and said: "In this case, then you can continue, lest there is a sudden change and your father will become suspicious again."
When these words fell into Li Can's ears, she felt somewhat unhappy. It seemed that Zhao Zong didn't let her go not because he was protecting her, but because he was afraid that His Majesty would be suspicious.
Wu Zai opened the door of the side hall and stood by the door with his head lowered.
When Zhao Xie led Li Can across the threshold, Zhao Luan spoke again: "Ze Yu, what I want to talk about next is the border matter. Don't leave anyone who has nothing to do with it."
Li Can looked back and saw Zhao Luan dragging Xia Jieyao in with him. Both of them looked very well-behaved. At first glance, they looked like a mother and daughter.
Looking at the situation, Zhao Luan had no intention of letting Xia Jieyao go out, so the "outsider" Zhao Luan mentioned was referring to her?